Sometimes I get amazed at the futility of our educational system in the current form. All it teaches is how to memorise things and put it down on paper in a neat way. And, there are super-competitive exams that are solely based on ones ability to memorise things. For eg. I was having a chat with one of my cousins who had just finished his tenth standard board exams. For some reason, our conversation turned into studies. He was dictating ( yes, literally dicatating ) the solution for the problem to prove that the trajectory of a projectile is a parabola. I was quite impressed with his explanation. And, I asked him ok, tell me what the question actually means. He said he did not quite understand my question. I asked him what is a 'projectile' and what is a 'trajectory'. He said, 'oh.. we have not studied about it'!!